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...somehow-poor little rich girl. But it's also tough to ignore their similarities to countless characters in teen dramas and comedies. John Hughes sculpted a career writing about kids like these in The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink; Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks mined the same vein. Burstein's film is way more earnest, but she's learned a lot, maybe too much, from the movies' take on teendom. Rather than offer a gritty view, upending the familiar vision of high school angst, she has fashioned a work so smooth and assured, it seems like...
...artists. He argues that they've long had a place at the Louvre, noting that both Eugène Delacroix and Cubist Georges Braque painted ceiling panels in the museum; Braque's 1953 paintings adorn a 450-year-old carved ceiling in the former royal antechamber. In the same vein, Loyrette has commissioned American Cy Twombly to paint one of the museum's last undecorated ceilings. "I'm not inventing or adding anything," he says. "In a way, I'm just renewing what has always been done...
...strong Aboriginal community on Queensland's Palm Island. On Nov. 19, 2004, Doomadgee was arrested for allegedly swearing at police officers. Some 40 minutes later, he lay dead in a cell with a black eye, bruising to his head, body and hands, four broken ribs, a ruptured portal vein and a split liver. The only suspect was Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, whom Queensland's Deputy State Coroner found responsible for the death but who was acquitted of manslaughter at trial. Melbourne-based Hooper, 34, takes us through every stage in an observant, acute and compassionate narration...
...make myself uncomfortable minute to minute. [Laughs.] Honestly, I don't necessarily make myself uncomfortable, but I do enjoy that vein of comedy. I like it when things are pushed just a little...
...wants a Boston Massacre. We want to see this thing go the distance, seven games, a classic finals that lives up to the hype. In the late '80s, the Detroit Pistons devised a defensive scheme called "the Jordan rules" to slow down His Airness. So in the same vein, to give Boston coach Doc Rivers and his team a fighting chance, here is a version of what can be called "the Kobe rules," culled from some of the best minds in the game...